Profitable Side Hustles for Freelance Writers

Event Description

Profitable Side Hustles for Freelance Writers

Looking to supplement your freelance writer income with other work? Damon Brown's panel discussion on "side hustles for writers" at the recent ASJA annual conference was a big hit. He'll share with us techniques successful writers are using to diversify their income, build their brands, and make a serious profit. Learn how to apply skills you've acquired as a freelancer and author to a variety of ideas outside of traditional journalism and books.
That’s what we’ll talk about in this month’s “Shop Talk” event.
Join us:
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
1 pm. Eastern (calculate for your time zone)

Register:

About our guest expert:

Former ASJA Board Member Damon Brown helps potential and current entrepreneurs make their mark without sacrificing themselves. He co-founded the popular platonic connection app Cuddlr and led it to acquisition within a year, all while being the primary caretaker of his infant first son. He now guides others through his consulting, weekly Inc.com column, and public speaking on platforms such as TED. Damon’s most recent book is The Productive Bite-Sized Entrepreneur: 24 Smart Secrets to Do More in Less Time, the latest in his best-selling Bite-Sized Entrepreneur series. Join his exclusive better business discussions at bit.ly/JoinDamon.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
– Sidney Sheldon

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
– Kenneth Tynan

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self–addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
– Ring Lardner

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
– Marguerite Yourcenar

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary – it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
– Somerset Maugham

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
– Christopher Hampton

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.
– Lawrence Kasdan

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self–deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
– Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
–Somerset Maugham

Writing a novel is like paddling from Boston to London in a bathtub. Sometimes the damn tub sinks. It's a wonder that most of them don't.
– Stephen King

Writing a novel is like spelunking. You kind of create the right path for yourself. But, boy, are there so many points at which you think, absolutely, I'm going down the wrong hole here.
– Chang–rae Lee

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
–Samuel Johnson